Barnes v. Lewis

Lumpkin, Justice.

A trustee in whom, as suck, the title to certain realty was vested, returned it for taxation in his own name for a particular year in which he made no other tax return. A tax execution was issued against him individually, and it ■appeared on the trial of the case now under review that the “property tax” included in this execution was in fact the tax on the identical property returned by the trustee, as above stated, although the execution also included the *559poll tax of the latter. The property was sold under this tax execution; and assuming that the sale was otherwise free…